by Ralph Benko | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Thursday, July 26, 2012 Share “The international gold standard at the beginning of the 20th century operated smoothly to facilitate trade, payments and capital movements.” — Robert Mundell “The Royal Swedish Academy of...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 Recent posts here have addressed the apparent strong correlation between the final departure from the gold standard and the beginning of economic stagnation for the middle class. Recently, in BullionVault, analyst Nathan...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Saturday, July 21, 2012 Share1 The fancy of being able to take a worthless substance, such as straw — or paper — and transform it into something of real value — such as gold — has inhabited the popular imagination from time...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Case of the Mixed Money Originally posted Thursday, July 19, 2012 Share1 Robert Natelson, then Professor of Law, The University of Montana School of Law, published Paper Money and the Original Understanding of the Coinage Clause, 31 Harvard J.L. & Pub. Policy...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Share “…a money supply based on nothing other than faith in government is a productivity killer.” John Aziz is a young British blogger on matters economic, publishing at azizonomics: economics for the jilted generation. In a...
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